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Women work without a break for their families, society, and friends all through the year. So, on IWD 2016, LEAD conducted their 3rd annual "Recognizing the Unrecognized", where women in our society who are rarely recognized but are responsible for important work were recognized for their contributions, such as cleaning railway stations, bus stands, picking household trash, selling vegetables etc. LEAD and LEADers believe that, without these women, our communities would come to a standstill.

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. To that purpose, the LEaders Accelerating Development (LEAD) Program of the Deshpande Foundation was born. LEAD develops innovative and entrepreneurial thinking within college students by exposing them to social issues, encouraging them to volunteer their time and effort into the community, and igniting their latent talent to come up with creative solutions. Through this unique platform provided by LEAD, students are gaining the skills and confidence needed to transform their visions into realities. Armed with guidance, exposure, networking opportunities, financial assistance, and encouragement from LEAD, students from throughout 75 colleges and 14 districts are unleashing their leadership potential to go on inspiring and improving those around them.

The 6th Yuva Summit, an international youth conference on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship hosted by the Leaders Accelerating Development program, began in Hubballi on 6th February with Mr. Ravindranath Gumaste, Managing Director of Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd., cutting the ceremonial ribbon that let the hundreds of attendees, including students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and honoured guests, into the event grounds.

On 24th January, 107 promising students from across Karnataka and neighbouring states descended upon the VTU campus in Belagavi to mark the kick-off of the 5th annual LEAD Prayana. These students, along with 32 beginning their journey on the same day in Nizamabad, were selected from a pool of almost 500 applicants. LEAD Prayana, which began in 2012 with just 63 students, is an annual leadership journey that takes almost 150 passionate students between the ages of 18-26 throughout India on a 14-day tour across Karnataka...

I am passionate about science, especially physics. My affair with Science started during my childhood and it deepened in my high school when I started participating in Science exhibitions with my models. During Pre University Education, I built the Levitation Train with few of my friends and grabbed prizes at several competitions. “Physics of the Impossible” by Michio Kaku was a book that exposed me further to the vastness of the science and motivated me to start a science group called “Blackbody Science Group (Which Absorbs All Wavelength of Intuitive Minds)”. This group engages in creating interest about science among government and physically disabled school children.

“Health is Wealth” goes a saying stressing upon the importance of health in an individual’s life. However in the rural area of India , people lack awareness about health and hence are negligent about the same. They rarely visit doctor and get the medical check-ups done. LEADer Komal from Godutai Engineering College, Kalaburagi noticed this and wanted to make her contribution in building a healthy India.

Hence under the guidance of LEAD, she took up a project of Health Camp at Sannur, Kalaburagi. For this she formed a team with like minded people. Her team mates were Roopali, Soumya Indi and Sheetal. At this camp, basic check-ups were conducted and test like Blood pressure, diabetes test etc were conducted. These health check-ups would have been expensive if conducted outside. In this health camp, it was conducted freely ad 200 people benefited out of it.

LEADer Komal cheerfully says “It was challenging for us to convince people to get the tests done but we tried hard and convinced them. I am happy that through this project of mine, 200 people benefited."

LEADer Komal signs off with a smile saying “I am also glad that I got exposure to team work, co-ordination and team handling.”

People of Sannur were happy with LEADer Komal and her team’s initiative. They wholeheartedly appreciated her team work.